Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing

Compliance of Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

1. Website

The URL address of official journal web site is https://jkan.or.kr.

‘Aims & Scope’ statement: Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing aims to promote the development and dissemination of knowledge of all spheres of nursing and to support evidence-based nursing policy. The journal welcomes studies that seek to evaluate and understand complex health care interventions and health policies, and that employ rigorous designs and methods appropriate for the research question related to nursing discipline. The journal covers all areas of nursing science. The journal also seeks to advance the quality of research by publishing methodological papers introducing or elaborating on analytic techniques, measures, and research methods.

Readership: This journal is published for health care professionals and administrators, including nurses, midwives, physicians, developmental specialists, public health workers, social scientists, child health educators, epidemiologists, and other health caregivers working to promote health care and welfare.

Authorship criteria: https://jkan.or.kr/authors/authors.php
Nurses or researchers throughout the world can submit a manuscript if the scope is appropriate for Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. Manuscripts should be submitted in English or in Korean.
ISSN Information: eISSN: 2093-758X

The policies on the research and publication ethics of the journal follow the guidelines set by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org/), the Ministry of Education, and the National Research Foundation of Korea with respect to the settlement of any misconduct.
All manuscripts should be prepared in strict application of the research and publication ethics guidelines recommended by the Council of Science Editors (CSE, http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/), and the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE, http://www.kamje.or.kr/).
The author(s) must be able to state that the research involving humans or animals has been approved by a responsible IRB and conducted in accordance with accepted national and international standards. JKAN will follow the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org/) for settlement of any misconduct. All studies involving human subjects or human data must be reviewed and approved by a responsible research ethics board or institutional review board (IRB). Please refer to the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/) for all investigations involving human subjects and materials. For studies of humans, including case reports, the author(s) must state whether informed consent was obtained from the study participants. The editor of journal may request submission of copies of the informed consent received from human subjects in clinical studies or IRB approval documents. Animal experiments should also be reviewed by an appropriate committee (e.g., the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) for the care and use of animals. If the study was exempt from such approval the basis of such exemption and the regulatory framework should be described.

2. Name of journal

The official journal title is Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. The abbreviated title is J Korean Acad Nurs.

3. Peer review process

https://jkan.or.kr/authors/authors.php#5

All contributions (including solicited articles) are critically reviewed by the editorial board members and/or reviewers. The decision to publish a paper is based on an editorial assessment and peer review.
Prereview: Initially all papers are assessed by an editorial committee consisting of members of the editorial team. The primary purpose is to decide whether to send a paper for peer review and to give a rapid decision on those that are not put forward. Papers that do not meet basic standards or are unlikely to be published irrespective of a positive peer review, for example, because their novel contribution is insufficient or the relevance to the discipline is unclear, may be rejected at this point, in order to avoid delays to authors who may wish to seek publication elsewhere.
Review: Manuscripts going forward to the review process are reviewed by members of an expert panel. All such papers will undergo a double-blind peer review by three reviewers and the Editor. The Editorial Board reserves the right to refuse any material for publication.

The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to the final decision regarding acceptance. Authors will receive reviewer comments. If the manuscript is subject to being publish, the author will be asked to respond to reviewer comments within two weeks.

4. Ownership and management

Information about the ownership of the journal: This journal is owned by its publisher, the Korean Academy of Nursing Science http://kan.or.kr

Management team is as follows (Jan 2024 – Dec 2025):
- Editor in Chief: Jin-Hee Park, PhD, RN, Ajou University, Korea
- Manuscript Editor: Hyun Joo Kim, InfoLumi Co., Korea
- Layout Editor: In A Park, M2PI, Korea
- Technical Editor: Jeewoon Choi, Korean Society of Nursing Science, Korea
- Website and JATS XML File Producers: XMLink,Co., Korea

5. Governing body

https://jkan.or.kr/about/editorial.php

The governing body is the journal's editorial board.

6. Editorial team and contact information

https://jkan.or.kr/about/editorial.php

The Editorial team is available from Editorial Board page at the front part of the journal.

Contact information
Editor-in-Chief: Jin-Hee Park, PhD, RN
Ajou University College of Nursing, 164, World cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 16499, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-31-219-7019
Email: jhee@ajou.ac.kr

7. Copyright and licensing

Articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, which allows readers to disseminate and reuse the article, as well as share and reuse the scientific material. It does not permit the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/.

8. Author Fees

https://jkan.or.kr/authors/authors.php

Authors whose manuscript is accepted for publication in JKAN will be charged a publication fee (USD 1,500). Publication fees do not influence editorial decision-making.

9. Process for the identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct

https://jkan.or.kr/about/open_access.php

The journal will follow the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org/) for settlement of any misconduct.

10. Publication ethics

Journal policies on authorship and contributorship
https://jkan.or.kr/policy/authorship.php

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing follows the recommendations for authorship set out by the ICMJE, 2019 (http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf) and the Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals 3rd Edition (KAMJE, 2019, https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_name=bo_publication&apm;bo_id=13&apm;per_page).

Authorship credit should be based on the following: 1) Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; 2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) Final approval of the version to be published; 4) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Corresponding author and first author: A corresponding author should be designated when there are two or more authors.

Correction of authorship after publication: Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should only be made prior to acceptance of the manuscript and only if approved by the Editor.

Redudant Publication and Plagiarism

Redundant publication (duplication) is defined as “reporting (publishing or attempting to publish) substantially the same work more than once, without attribution of the original source(s).” Characteristics of reports that are substantially similar include the following: (a) “At least one of the authors must be common to all reports (if there are no common authors, it is more likely plagiarism than redundant publication);” (b) “The subjects or study populations are the same or overlapped;” (c) “The methodology is typically identical or nearly so;” (d) “The results and their interpretation generally vary little, if at all.”

Authors should not submit the same research to more than one journal and should not publish the manuscript in different languages. If authors wish to pursue a secondary publication of the manuscript in another language, they should obtain approval from the editor-in-chief of both related journals. The editorial board will determine the nature and degree of duplicate publication or duplicate submission for the manuscript.

Plagiarism means the appropriation of another person’s ideas, research processes, results, or text as one’s own. This includes using previously published material of oneself or any other author without citing the reference. Authors are required to submit original manuscripts, and confirm that they have cited or quoted others’ ideas and texts appropriately and accurately.

Policies on conflicts of Interest

The corresponding author of an article is asked to inform the Editor of the authors’ potential conflicts of interest that may have influenced the research or interpretation of data. A potential conflict of interest should be disclosed on the title page and at the end of the main text, even when the authors are confident that their respective judgments have not been influenced when preparing the manuscript. Such conflicts may include financial support or private connections to pharmaceutical companies, political pressure from special interest groups, or academic problems.

Policies on data sharing
https://jkan.or.kr/policy/data_sharing.php

The journal follows the data-sharing policy described in “Data-sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)” (https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.7.1051) (http://icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf).

Journal's policy on ethical oversight

When reviewers or readers suspect publication malpractice, such as fabrication, falsification, salami slicing, plagiarism, or simultaneous/duplicate publication, inappropriate changes in authorship, an undisclosed conflict of interest, ethical problems with a submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and so on, the process of resolution will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The ethics committee will discuss and adjudicate cases of suspected publication malpractice, as well as complaints and appeals against editors.

Journal's policy on intellectual property

All published papers become the permanent property of the Korean Society of Nursing Science. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Society.

Journal's options for post-publication discussions and corrections

The post-publication discussion is available through ‘Letter to the Editor’. If any readers have a concern on any articles published, they can submit letters to the editor on the articles. If any errors or mistakes in the article are found, it can be corrected through errata, corrigenda, or retraction.

11. Publishing schedule

https://jkan.or.kr/about/about.php
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing is published four times a year (Feb. 28, May 31, Aug. 31, and Nov. 30).

12. Access

https://jkan.or.kr/about/about.php

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing is freely accessible online to read, download, and share, immediately upon publication from https://jkan.or.kr according to the Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The copyright, including the right of online transmission, is owned by the Korean Society of Nursing Science.

13. Archiving

All manuscripts published in JKAN are freely available to read and download from https://jkan.or.kr/articles/archive.php. The full-text articles published in JKAN since 2008 are deposited in the National Library of Korea (https://seoji.nl.go.kr/archive).

14. Revenues sources

15. Advertising

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing currently does not operate advertised products or services.

16. Direct marketing

Journal propagation has been done through the journal website and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.

Good Practice